How To: Enable WMI to Monitor in KNM

WMi can be used to monitor many monitors for Windows machines. The monitors are:

Active Directory

Bandwidth Utilization

CPU Utilization

Directory Property

Disk Utilization

Eventlog

File Change

Log File

Memory Utilization

Process Status

Swap File Utilization

Windows Performance

Windows Service Status

WMI Query

Before you can assign WMI monitors to Windows assets, you must make sure that WMI is enabled on the machine. To do this, please check the following.

Make sure the Windows Management Instrumentation service is running.

Verify that WMI is enabled for the account you want to use to monitor it

Open the Computer Management window on the device. Expand Services and Applications. Right click WMI Control and select Properties. In the Security tab, highlight Root and click the Security button. Make sure Remote Enable is checked for the user or user group you want to use.